Nathalie Démaretz

France

After several years of working with video, Nathalie Démaretz has been able to assert and define her style, her work heading principally in the direction of an artistic world of living spectacle. To her credit, she has 20 000 hours of flying and bodies of work in a number of areas : Lapland, opera, theatre, song, Andalusia, the circus, Russia, the Canary Islands, sports, Czechoslovakia, social justice struggles and resistance, music (in the domains of rock and roll, sacred, folk, classical, reggae, rap, jazz), Italy, painting, Greece, poetry, Turkey, fairy tales, Québec, architecture, Algeria, acrobatics... at least 10 000 hours of editing, cutting and pasting all things beautiful, more than 1000 letters sent, more than 100 filmed spectacles, some crash landings and now forty years later, she’s giving her all to filmmaking.